The forcing of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 4355-4373

  Schneider, Niklas ^a   Cornuelle, Bruce D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 25444459911     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3527.1     Document Type: Article

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